The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, said the nation had spent about N2 trillion on constituency projects without commensurate development at the grassroots.
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Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Friday said prevalence of corruption in the country was widespread, not limited to any sector or agency.
The bulk of an estimated 90 billion dollars that left Africa annually through illicit financial flow to overseas might have come from Nigeria.
ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, stated this in Kaduna during the commemoration of the 2019 African Union Anti-corruption Day to create awareness on the menace of corrupt practices.
The latest media blitz by ICPC has however gone to the extent of linking the Office of the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, by revealing that its Chairman, Bolaji Owosanye, referred the report on its investigations to the office as far back as March, another indication that the decision to actually prosecute the MD of NBET had not been taken despite the media “indictment”
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, says Nigeria must deploy intelligence to be able to combat terrorism, banditry and kidnapping.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission said it recovered N26 billion from 2015 till date from public officials and companies.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, says checking vote buying is a daunting task due to the large number of people involved in the act.
The Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service; Tunde Fowler; Minister for Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; and Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, will join other top officials from around the world at a global conference on how to contain Illicit Financial Flows at the Trusteeship Council Chamber, UN Headquarters in New York.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, says Illicit Financial Flows are bane of Nigeria’s development.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, says the commission would support the Buhari administration in ridding the country of corruption.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, has urged the National Assembly to remove the secrecy surrounding its budget for the sake of transparency.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission says it will prosecute politicians and contractors who divert funds for Constituency Projects across the country.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye has been sworn in as the new Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, Executive Secretary, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, says President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is not a safe haven for people with stolen money or looted assets.
Also confirmed were eight others as members of the ICPC board.
Related Offences Commission and eight other members were on Thursday referred to the Senate Committee on Anti-Corruption for screening.
He said: “The public has been saying we want to know the people from whom you have been recovering assets, not necessarily the people who have been convicted.
How a government whose single greatest promise was to fight corruption has been enmeshed in a fruitless argument over whether or not it is more corrupt than its predecessor is one of the most embarrassing legacies of the Buhari administration